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Swatch of the Day: MAC Eye Liners

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

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Time to swatch all of my MAC eye liners that are in pencil form! (Fluidlines to come later)

I don’t have a lot from MAC because Urban Decay has a hold on my eye liner soul with their 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils. But I have picked up some MAC ones here and there. I love MAC’s Pearlglide formula, and the Softsparkles are nice as well.

MAC Auto-de-blu Technakohl Liner
Description: Amethyst
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MAC Full of Fuchsia Technakohl Liner
Description: Fuchsia-purple with icy fuchsia sheen (LE: Makeup Art Cosmetics)
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MAC Grey Utility Powerpoint Eye Pencil
Description: Uniform grey
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MAC Minted Eye Kohl
Description: Vibrant mint green with pearl
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MAC Rave Pearlglide Eye Liner
Description: Deep purple with purple glitter (LE: Love That Look)
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MAC Black Russian Pearlglide Eye Liner
Description: Black with navy blue glitter (LE: Love That Look)
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MAC Iris Accents Softsparkle Eye Pencil
Description: Pale violet with silver pearl (LE:
Balloonacy)
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MAC Peacocked Softsparkle Eye Pencil
Description: Rich turquoise green with silver pearl (LE: Little Darlings)
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MAC Chocolight Softsparkle Eye Pencil
Description: Teddy-brown with matching pearl (LE: Little Darlings)
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Swatching procedure: My skin tone is roughly a MAC NW20 (maybe NW15 since any tan is fading). Photos are taken in my bathroom under “Natural Light” bubs which mimic natural daylight.

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Neutral Eye

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I have an advising appointment today, so I decided to try something fairly neutral…

And WTF, I hate applying eyeliner.  How I end up failing at it so hardcore I have no idea.  I did it way too thick today, but I didn’t think I was?!  ARGH

Face

  • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
  • MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde

Foundation applied with 209, MSF with 268.  Concealer applied under eyes and smoothed out with 194 brush.

Eyes

  • MAC Painterly paint pot
  • MAC Expensive Pink e/s
  • MAC Cork e/s
  • MAC Espresso e/s
  • MAC Shroom e/s
  • Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Bourbon
  • MAC Pearlglide Eye Pencil in Black Russian
  • MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara

Painterly used as base with flat e/s brush.  Expensive Pink applied over whole lid with 239 brush.  Cork blended into crease with 239 brush.  Espresso applied to outer V and crease with 217 brush, blended.  Shroom used as a highlight, 272 brush.  Bourbon applied to upper lash line, and Black Russian to lower lash line.

Lips

  • MAC C-Thru Lipglass

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There it is!

Sunny eyes for a sunny day

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Finally the sun was out for the first time in who knows how many days, so I went for something bright. This is off of my “list of must do looks” that I have compiled. I think I really really like it! Yay!

Face

  • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
  • MAC Beauty Powder in Tahitian Sand
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead

Foundation applied with 109 brush, then Tahitian Sand to the cheeks with a 168, topped off with the pinker side of the Redhead MSF with a 168.

Eyes

  • MAC Painterly paint pot
  • MAC Rated “R” e/s
  • MAC Firespot e/s
  • MAC Passionate e/s
  • MAC Paradisco e/s
  • MAC Shroom e/s
  • MAC Pearlglide Liner in Black Russian
  • MAC Clear Brow Finish
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

Painterly paint pot applied as base with a flat e/s brush. Rated “R” applied to inner corners with a 219 brush. Firespot packed on over lid with 239 brush. Passionate buffed into outer V and crease with 217 brush, blended with Firespot. Paradisco used to blend out Passionate above crease, with a 272 brush. Shroom applied as a highlight with a small shader brush. Using the 219 brush, I used Rated “R” to liner under lower lashes on the inner half, and then Firespot on the outer half. Black Russian liner then applied to waterline.

Lips

  • MAC Valentine’s lipgelee

Some thoughts…. Passionate is terrible to work with. I dunno, I just don’t like the texture of it in the pan. Seems like it’s hard to pick up on a brush. But… when blended into something like today’s look, it’s really pretty.

I got a new MUFE mascara. Mine was about 7 months old and drying out so I sprung for a new one. At $22 a pop I try to avoid buying it too often, LOL!

October 9, 2009

Friday, October 9th, 2009

I feel like this is something kinda unusual for me… It is something off of my list of combinations to try (though I did my own highlight/blend and liners). I like it, though! I kind of did a messy job (especially with the liner), so it’s not perfect looking, but I definitely think this is something I would do again, and in different variations with different colors.

Face

  • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde

Eyes

  • MAC Painterly paint pot as base
  • MAC Orb e/s all across lid
  • MAC Scene e/s in crease
  • MAC Typographic e/s to darken outer v and outer crease
  • MAC Vanilla e/s to blend out crease
  • MAC Solar White e/s to hightlight and in tear duct
  • MAC Powerpoint eyeliner in Grey Utility along upper lashes
  • MAC Pearlglide eyeliner in Black Russian on waterline
  • MAC Clear Brow Finish
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

Lips

  • MAC She Loves Candy lipglass

Bleh, I’m so dark under my eyes :( But… I am too lazy to put on a bunch of concealer, especially when I am not doing anything special. Hence my powder foundation – I don’t like to be all gloppy with products.

Crappy crappy pictures!

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Boo, my normal camera that I take my pics with had its battery die, so I had to use my fancier point and shoot. It’s flash is really powerful, so I had to take today’s pictures without flash so they don’t look the best.

I got this idea off of macmakeup.net’s list of eyeshadow combination.

Face

  • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde (168 brush)

Eyes

  • MAC Painterly paint pot as base
  • MAC Lotusland e/s all over lid
  • MAC Smoke & Diamonds e/s in crease
  • MAC Vanilla e/s to blend
  • MAC Shroom e/s under brow
  • MAC Powerpoint eyeliner in Grey Utility along upper lashes (I later darkened it up a bit with Black Russian Pearlglide liner, but after I took the pictures)
  • MAC Clear Brow Finish
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

Lips

  • MAC Fast Friends lipglass

god those pictures look like crap!

Also, I feel like lately that the makeup just isn’t “sticking” to me. I’ll apply, and then 15 minutes later it’s really faded??? I don’t know what’s up :( It’s getting disgruntling.

Let’s play a little catch up!

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

So my problem is laziness. I take pictures, then they sit on the camera. I have pictures on my digital camera from nearly a year ago! So… this morning I don’t have much going on, so I am vowing to go through all the makeup pictures, delete the crap ones, and post up good ones, regardless of how old.

What this means is that I probably won’t remember which products I used. But I still want to post them up since I took the effort to take the pics, ya know? What’s even worse is that my camera’s date kept resetting, so I don’t even have an accurate date for these :( Most will be from March – June 2009.

I run several blogs on a huge variety of subjects, and I tend to neglect them all, so honestly I REALLY need to make a vow to at least stay on top of a few.

First up…

This is from September 22, 2009.

Two words: SPICED CHOCOLATE!

I heard so much raving about this quad, so when I caught notice it was at my nearest CCO, I ran over and grabbed it. I’ve been in such a mood for a “fall feeling” with bronzes and reds, so this really excited me. And it didn’t fail to impress! (Which is always important, as things tend to get hyped up on MAC forums and turn out to be a bust)

I also dyed my hair recently “Deep Burgundy” by Feria. These pictures were taken soon after it was dyed. 1.5 weeks later and it’s faded a bit, but still really red. Maybe I finally found a good red hair dye?! Well, that, and I switched to using a sulfate-free shampoo (Bed Head Superstar) which really helps on prolonging hair color.

Uber red:

September 5, 2009
I went for a strawberries & bananas look this day and ended up messing it up by using a black eyeliner. I don’t like dark eyeliner (as you can tell, I usually don’t line my looks, which drives some people crazy but I like no liner a lot of the time). Therefore, I will only post the open eyes version.

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MAC Chrome Yellow
MAC Black Russian pearlglide liner (ARGHHHH)
MAC Full of Fuchsia Technakohl liner (trying to unruin the look)

Sometime in August 2009
How great are Taylor Swift dresses?! Haha, I just had to say that!

This was done with some of the Hello Kitty shadows… I’m guessing Too Dolly and Lucky Tom are two of the candidates



Sometime in April or May 2009

Awww, this is sooo pretty, I wish I remembered what I used :( I almost want to think I used Plumed Violet Cream Colour Base, but I am not sure.

April 3, 2009
I remembered the date on this one because this was the night of the Fast & Furious opening, LOL! I was going for the import model look, I guess. I used Too Faced Ooh & Aah duo eyeshadow.

That’s about all! There were other ones, but I either didn’t like how I did the makeup, or it was a repeat of something I had posted earlier.

Whew!

I am going to try to focus on getting swatches and collection photos up. I know natural light is best for that, but unfortunately the weather is quite crappy so I’ll have to see how far I get with that, especially today.